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Netflix Co-Founder Reed Hastings Gives $50M To Bowdoin College For AI Initiative
Netflix co-founder and executive chairman Reed Hastings has given $50 million to his alma mater, Bowdoin College in Maine, in support of a new AI initiative.
Wolter Peeters/Fairfax Media via Getty Images Netflix co-founder and executive chairman Reed Hastings has given $50 million to his alma mater, Bowdoin College in Maine, in support of a new initiative centered on AI. “This donation seeks to advance Bowdoin’s mission of cultivating wisdom for the common good by deepening the college’s engagement with one of humanity’s most transformative developments: artificial intelligence,” Hastings said. Bowdoin president Safa Zaki, whose research focuses on building and testing computational models of mind, said the gift from Hastings will help the college infuse humanity into the study and application of AI.
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